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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Report Cites Fewer Sex Abuse Cases in US. Only 6 new cases of sexual abuse of minors for the year 2009.

23 March 2010, Zenit.

Numbers relating to the sexual abuse of minors by clergy are at the lowest they've been since 2004, and most allegations in 2009 were regarding earlier decades. This is one of the positive trends reported in the 2009 annual report on compliance with the U.S. bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. In 2009, there were 398 allegations and 286 offenders reported to dioceses. Of these allegations, six regarded children under the age of 18 that year. By the end of 2009, almost 50 of the allegations had been determined false or were unsubstantiated. The data was collected by the Georgetown University-based Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA). “For the majority of new allegations (71%) brought to dioceses, the abuse began between 1960 and 1984. The most common time period for allegations reported in 2009 was 1975-1979,” CARA noted.

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